[pressgang] Douglas is Cancelled

[Belinda]

Sadly only available in Aus on Apple tv, hopefully will show up on one of
the other streaming platforms soon.love Karen Gillan.

I actually think Press Gang stands up pretty well after all these years.
Sure fashion and technology date it, but there aren't any cringe worthy
un-pc moments.

Ahead of its time in strong female leads.  And whilst PG didn't have any
gay characters, it did have people of colour and a character with a
disability. Think Moffat is being overly hard on himself.

Still really watchable, I will always see lot of myself in Lynda Day.



On Tue, 9 July 2024, 08:44 Matt Saunders, <matts at yoyo.org> wrote:

> Thanks Vince - I love that you're still here. :-)
>
> Well, Douglas is Cancelled took me on a journey I didn't expect ...
>
> I was ready to give up in the first episode and almost didn't bother
> finishing it!  Came back to it a couple of weeks later and binged the
> final three during which you find out what it's *really* about, by way
> of an absolute tour-de-force from Karen Gillan - including her being
> even more Lynda Day than she was in the Amy Pond days.
>
> Haunting, twisty and sublime ... one of Moffat's finest.  Go watch it if
> you haven't already.
>
>
> On Jun 21, Vince Deehan wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Great to hear from you. The Boss!
> >
> > I too read that article and am really looking forward to Steven Moffat's
> new
> > show.
> >
> > I don't think we can judge Press Gang harshly for not having any gay
> > characters,
> > as almost no TV shows did back then. Off the top of my head, I don't
> recall any
> > gay characters on TV in those days.
> >
> > It really was a very long time ago. Thirty five years since the
> broadcast of
> > series 1, in 1989.
> >
> > Vince Deehan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM Matt Saunders <matts at yoyo.org> wrote:
> >
> >     Steven Moffat's newest creation is on ITV in the UK next week:
> >
> >     https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/17/
> >
>  douglas-is-cancelled-hugh-bonneville-alex-kingston-steven-moffat-cancel-comedy
> >
> >     I'm looking forward to this (as ever with anything that the Moff
> >     writes!) - hoping for typical Moff cleverness and humour.
> >
> >     There's a small mention of PG in the article - Steven's regret about
> the
> >     lack of gay characters.  With hindsight, the imposition of a
> >     heteronormative love life on every key character at some point in the
> >     show feels clumsy in today's world, but would including some gay
> >     representation more than 30 years ago have felt token?  I don't
> think so
> >     but interested in what others think.
> >
> >
> >     Matt.
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